Network card problem

[spam at pheather.com]

not sure he's doing anything wrong

same problem here using both Fedora test 2 and 3

no problem at all if I reformat and install Redhat 8 or 9



pheather

> Looks like eth0 isn't getting an IP address from the dhcp server. Are 
> you sure your DHCP server is up and running? Are other clients able to 
> get IP addresses from it?
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> Trevor Ramoutar wrote:
> 
> > No problemo.
> > 
> > Here's the output of ifconfig:
> > 
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:08:CE:ED:A0  
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:1
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
> >           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> >           Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdc00 
> > 
> > lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
> >           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> >           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:774 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:774 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
> >           RX bytes:390002 (380.8 Kb)  TX bytes:390002 (380.8 Kb)
> > 
> > Here's the contents of ifcfg-eth0:
> > 
> > # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
> > # for the documentation of these parameters.
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > USERCTL=no
> > PEERDNS=yes
> > TYPE=Ethernet
> > DEVICE=eth0
> > HWADDR=00:60:08:ce:ed:a0
> > BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> > 
> > I'm hoping that this makes more sense to you than it does to me...
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com
> > [mailto:fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jaap A. Haitsma
> > Sent: October 17, 2003 6:34 PM To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com Subject: Re:
> > Network card problem
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does not sound too bad what you have been doing, but in order to analyze
> > 
> > what's wrong can you send the output when you run ifconfig
> > and maybe also your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file
> > (assuming your network interface card is configured as eth0)
> > 
> > Jaap
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Trevor Ramoutar wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >>I just install Fedora Test 3 and have encountered my first problem.
> >>
> >>Fedora detected my Ethernet card as a "3c900 10BaseT[Boomerang]" card.
> >>I also made sure that it was obtaining IP stuff through DHCP.
> >>
> >>So far so good, this has worked in every other distro I've tried.
> >>
> >>Problem here is that on boot, my eth service doesn't start up.  If I
> >>manually enter in my network info (IP address, subnet, etc.), then the
> >>service starts on boot, but I still can't connect to the Net.
> >>
> >>Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
> >>
> >>Thanks.
> >>
> >>
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